Bhubaneswar, July 28 -- The Orissa High Court today rejected the anticipatory bail application
by senior IAS officer Bishnupada Sethi seeking relief from coercive action by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in connection with bureaucrat's alleged involvement in Bridge and Roof Corporation bribery case observing that "power of corruption is like a shadow, it follows those who wield power".
A Group General Manager of central government undertaking Chanchal Mukherjee, was earlier arrested by CBI along with two others for allegedly accepting a Rs 10 lakh bribe. The probe agency submitted that the bribe was related to awarding contracts and clearing bills and senior bureaucrat Sethi was in complicity with the crime under prevention of corr...